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A Community Chronicle put out by the Jewish Community Council (JCC) of Cairo since 1995
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MAGDA HAROUN NEW JCC PRESIDENT
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CARMEN WEINSTEIN MEMORIAL SERVICE
18 APRIL 2013
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  Date BASSATINE NEWS - Main Feature Story 
Go! Spring 2013 JCC elects new president - media clippings
Go! Special Issue Carmen Weinstein: death - funeral - condolence messages - media clippings - milestones
Go! Winter 2012-3 Carmen Weinstein Vindicated - Passover 2013 / why do they resent us? - Meyr Biton Temple photos
Go! Autumn 2012 Sukkot 2012 - Mystery Shipment- How Many Are You? - Inter-denominational Hanuka - Mistaken Identity - Why They stayed On
Go! Roshanna 2012 Against All Odds
Go! 2011 Celine Curiat's Story - Alvernia School - Passing of Grand Rabbi Haim Nahum
Go! Summer-Autumn 2010 The Lady Vanishes, An Unforgetable Shavuot, Hanan Synagogue remembered, google before you leap
Go! Spring 2010 Rambamobilia, British School @ Meyr Biton, Seder 2010 @ Shaar Hashamayim, RIP: Denise Moreno
Go! Autumn 2009 restoration works on Cairo's Jewish landmarks - wedding photos Shaar Hashamayim
Go! Summer 2009 Togo Mizrahi - Maimonides restoration attracts world media attention - clarification from the Alexandria Jewish Community - Leila Mourad's comeback
Go! Winter 2008 From the old press
Go! Summer 2008 Ahram Hebdo on Cairo Synagogues; Dr. Max Salama departs
Go! Winter 2007-08 AUC Students visit Shaar Hashamayim; Madame Iman dies; Full House @ Passover
Go! Special Issue Special issue: Centennail celebration of Saar Hashamayim Synagogue
Go! Winter 2006 Purim 2007 @ Maadi Temple - Glorice Weinstein Awarded - Leon Dichy
Go! Spring 2005 A Cairo seder, Springtime at Bassatine Cemetery
Go! Spring 2004 From Mehalla El Kobra to Abou Kir - British International School @ Meyer Biton
Go! Summer 2003 Bar Mitzvahs @ Maadi - Danish Bishops @ Adly Synagogue - Mme. Politi remembered
Go! April 2001 Chehata haroun... The Marek Report... Egypt honors Laila Mourad
Go! September 2000 Bassatine Cemetery Part II - Thank you Denise Gani 
Go! June 15 2000 President of Cairo Jewish Community decorated by Vatican
Go! April 2000 Digitizing Bassatine Cemetery; Max Herz: Forgotten Pasha - Akerib sisters remember Dr. Glanz
Go! March 2000 JCC'S response to a Wall Street Journal article of March 15, 2000
Go! December 1999 Adly Synagogue: What's in a name - Robert Nahman dies
Go! July 1999 The Elia Rossis... Hillary Clinton @ Ben Ezra; Congressman Benjamin Gilman @ Bassatine
Go! Special Issue author historian Dr. Jacques Hassoun dies In Paris
Go! Special Issue An Unfortunate Outcome
Go! December 1998 Multi-ethnic student group clean up Kreim Synagogue
Go! September 1998 JCC Board celebrates 2nd anniversary... from London and Los Angeles... Haim Nahum Effendi
Go! June 1998 Old Cairo Braces For New Millennium Celebrations 
Go! March 1998 Living As A Jewish Student In Egypt
Go! November 1997 Jewish Studies Library Opens in Old Cairo
Go! July 1997 Ben Ezra Restored... How About a Jewish Artifacts Museum?
Go! March 1997 Our Sefarims Belong Here ... Not In Brooklyn!!!
Go! September 1996 Dissident Members of Cairo Jewish Community Stage Palace Coup
Go! July 1996 Grave Problems... Can They Be Resolved?
Go! October 1995 Bassatine... One Of The Oldest Jewish Cemeteries In The World

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